Mouches Volantes

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    The second in Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker's own words, "a celebration of elusive relationships" between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves, the aural testimony of Blind Willie Johnson's widow Angelina and the camera's illumination of a world simultaneously of and beyond the everyday. These lyrical fragments sweep in and out as with the tides; a time-based symmetry slowly emerges as the film reveals itself to be a perfect circle.

  • Release Date

    1976-04-27

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    If I had my way, I’d tear this building down.

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  • Languages:

    English

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